Help Us Publish Tesfai's Story
Help Us Publish Tesfai's Story
Help Us Publish Tesfai's Story
Help Us Publish Tesfai's Story
Help Us Publish Tesfai's Story
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Help Us Publish Tesfai's Story
Dr. Tesfai Tesema has a remarkable life story.
Born in Ethiopia, as a young adult he became a card carrying member of the Communist Party. But things did not go well. The disastrous policies of the government led to severe famine in Ethiopia. Tesfai protested these policies.
Threatened with jail or worse, he fled Ethiopia with two friends. They hired a guide to cross the treacherous Danakil desert to enter Djibouti in the north.
Robbed and left to fend for themselves, a Muslim desert tribe of nomads helped them reach Djibouti.
As refugees in Djibouti Tesfai found it impossible to support himself.
An uncle of Tesfai's helped him reach Saudi Arabia, where he found work on a building project. That is not all he found. Chinese workers invited him to a Bible study in the desert. He became a Christian in Saudi Arabia.
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Tesfai Tesema at the building site in Saudi Arabia
where he became a Christian.
From the moment the Holy Spirit grabbed hold of him, Tesfai HAD to tell others - first, Muslims in Saudi Arabia. He found support in a clandestine house church; it was there he met and married Abeba. Soon they had a child, a son they named "Abel."
Abeba Tesema with their first child, Abel Tesema
His and Abeba's witnessing had an effect, too much of an effect for the Saudi authorities. This led to persecution of his family, but finally resulted in many more baptisms - and church plants.
Expelled from Saudi Arabia, the family found refuge in Sudan, already crowded with thousands of others escaping war and famine. There they began more churches - establishing the Ethiopian Church in Sudan.
Photo of refugees in Sudan
Worshippers at a church begun by Tesfai and Abeba in Sudan.
The story shows how someone whom Christ brought to Himself in the Middle East finally became a missionary to immigrants and refugees and the dispossessed in San Francisco, ministering to their physical and spiritual needs - helping them to find hope in the love of God.
Immigrants in line, hoping to find some place to stay in San Francisco.
This book is a faith filled account which will encourage Christians in the United States, the Middle East, and all places where missionaries are working in dangerous places.
Rev. Tesfai Tesema at his installation as missionary in San Francisco
It costs us $3,000 to publish a book. Please help us raise $3,000 we need to publish this book and other books as well as publish the Missionaries to America blog and video interviews, all to tell the stories of more Missionaries to America.
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Please donate whatever you can so we can share this and other stories of brave, resourceful missionaries, and how our Lord has brought them to America to be a blessing to many.
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